Record controlled line printing machine



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Y., .assignorsto International Business Machines Co'rporation, New York, .N. Y., a corporation of New York Application February 3, 1949, Serial No. 74,424

19 Claims.

This invention relates to multiple line printing machines, and more particularly to the type which performs multiple line address printing directly under control of a single perforated record without the necessity for utilizingstorage devices, or the like.

In machines of the perforated record controlled type it is customary to provide an alphabetical and numerical printing mechanism which will print a line of corresponding information, such as numbers, words, names, etc. on a single line of the record sheet under control of each perforated record or card which is passed through the machine. Such forms of machines have been highly developed to the point Where complete bills and statements may be printed. In the body of the bill. or statement there are multiple lines of numerical information printed, one below the other, generally derived from detail records or cards. It is further desirable to identify each printed bill or statement by address data which ordinarily comprises three lines; :a name, a number and street, and a town and State.

In the early forms of such record controlled machines address lin printing has been performed in a simple manner by utilizing three perforated records, each having designated thereon the individual line of information which it is to control for printing. While attaining a very desirable accomplishment this arrangement :had the drawback that it was always necessary to keep all cards pertaining to each address together. since a misfiling of a perforated address .record card would result in improper address printing.

This objection has been overcome in other forms of address printing machines by having a single record perforated to represent the three lines of the address, but utilized a plurality of record controlled storage devices, one for each line of the address to be printed and which are sequentially called into operation to control the alphabetic printing mechanism to print the lines of address in succession Ina further simplification of this arrangement, in another form of address line printing machine some of the storage devices were dispensed'with, which enabled printing of two lines of the address directly under control of a single perforated record and Iorthe third line the information was derived from the record as it passed through the machine and was stored up in a storage device to ultimately control the printing mechanism to print the third line of the address.

It is to the accomplishment of address line printing directly under control of a single "record 2 or card-that the present arrangement has been devised and in such a manner that there is not only a simplification over the prior arrangements but there is also incorporated therein additional selective controls which vary the sequence in which the lines are to be printed, enables lines of information to be omitted, and selects the number of lines which are to be printed and in the desired sequence, and to provide for the relatively important feature of calling the multiline reading and printing operations by selective control means which effects such operations when a special designation on :each card which is to control such operations has been sensed.

Ashas just been intimated, the printing of a complete bill, statement, or the like in a record con-trolled accounting machine is derived from master cards and detail cards. The detail cards are perforated to designate the detail numerical data which is printed in the body of the bill and each master card is perforated to represent the address wherein three fields represent (a) the name, (b) the street and number and (c) the townandState.

Therefore, the principal feature of the invention comprises a selective control means which is preferably in the form of a special designation on the master card which conditions the machine to effect multiple line address printing directly under control of the master card so that in the absence of a master card passing through the machine the detail cards may control the same printing 'meohanism to print lines of information. With such selective arrangement it is possible to conserve printing mechanism capacity by enabling the same columns of the printing mechanism 'to print the lines of the address from the master card and the numerical information from the detail cards, one beneath the other.

Another feature of the invention is to provide a multiple line printing device which entirely dispenses with the necessity of any form of storage devices and enables the alphabet printing mechanism tobe controlled directly by the perforations in a record.

Another feature of the invention pertains to the fulfillment of the requirement that the machine be so flexible in its controls that the lines of the address may be printed in any sequence, certain lines of the address may be omitted and printing of the address may be located at selected positions of the record sheet.

In carrying out this object -the master card is 

